This Week’s Independent Thinkers
Paul Beatty wrote a book. Who hasn’t? But Beatty’s book, The Sellout, set judges of the Man Booker Prize, Britain’s loftiest literary accolade, into...
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Lots of times people want handouts, but there are those who seriously want to work.
Patrick Hoagland, 30, of Phoenix was laid off. After a...
This Week’s Independent Thinkers
Banks are in business to make money. They loan it, compound it, hold it hostage, exchange it, invest it and sometimes buy uniforms for...
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When consideration of a planned oil pipeline from North Dakota to Illinois came up in 2016, President Obama said he wasn’t familiar with the...
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Alaa Murabit is founder of Voice of Libyan Women, focused on using words, not guns, to achieve diplomacy, cooperation, peace and security.
Murabit is convinced,...
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Alex Ruiz is a server at Cinco de Mayo Mexican Grill in Douglasville, Georgia.
Recently a man walked in, ordered his food and sat down...
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When you’re hot, you’re hot.
More than 1,000,000 Earths could fit inside the sun. It’s 93 million miles away and more than 4 billion years...
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Not Without Us is a documentary film that will be shown right here in Happy Town, Friday night at the Aud, and we think...
This Week’s Independent Thinker
Athletic teams representing a sovereign country or territory showed up in Italy on Feb. 6 for a quadrennial event that brought more than 93...
This Week’s Independent Thinker
William Blair Anderson is Police Chief of St. Cloud, Minn., a town where eight people were injured last Saturday in a knife attack that...